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This is the Story...

Part comedy. Part drama. Part faux-sci-fi.

This is a post-coming-of-age story about a lonely, disorganized life insurance salesman who experiences anxiety and paranoia surrounding his 65th birthday. His drab, messy office and equally uninspiring apartment is not the future Gray had envisioned for himself. He fears growing older as much as he has anxiety of the past.

On his birthday, he experiences bizarre time hallucinations and abruptly leaves work. He confides in is his taxidermy parakeet, Montague, that time is moving backwards. The dead bird is of little help.

Amplifying his time perception dilemma, he meets his long lost half brother, Peter, who has apparently built a working time machine that is fueled by memories. The catch is it only lasts for 5 minutes at a time.

Gray volunteers and enters the memory time machine. We revisit his birthday three years prior, the day his wife left him. Gray watches his life on a TV screen before he is ejected back into a harsh reality. However, not everything we've seen is to be believed. Gray discovers a truth about himself in an elaborate scheme of lies.

NEW ANIMATED INVITATION PROMO:

THE MR. BRACEWELL TELETHON:

This is the Plan...

This is 20 minute short film that adopts the feel of a feature. Production will begin in the beginning of September with plans to shoot with the Arri Alexa, an amazing high-end camera that is able to achieve a filmic look. Production is set near the end of August.

Unless you're a festival goer, your best chance of seeing it will be by DVD. We will be submitting to the following national and international festivals:

This is the Look...

The short will of course be visually striking and aesthetically intriguing. With choreographed camera movement and doses of visual effects sprinkled throughout, a sense of magic is inserted in the realism. Costuming, props, set design will intensely art directed with a consistent palette. In addition to the unique visuals, the film will also have an entirely original score by Stephanie Lin!

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Previous rewards and your name featured in the film! Not just in the credits but visibly written somewhere in Mr. Bracewell's insurance office. Your name may appear on top of a stack of papers, in a filing cabinet, on a post it or on a computer database as a client of Bracewell's Life Insurance.

The ability to travel back in time if you close your eyes and think hard enough.

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Have a birthday coming up? All previous awards for two people. Two cards, two DVDs and two names in the film. Plus we will make a personal "happy birthday" video with song and message for you or the person of your choice and sent on that special date! Plus credit as junior executive producer.